Since its founding, the Global Youth Biodiversity Network (GYBN) has been actively mobilizing young people around the world to collectively work toward a just and equitable world that lives in harmony with nature. GYBN's collective actions on capacity-building, consultation, participation in decision-making, campaigning, alliance building and grassroots action served as the foundation for the network’s successful advocacy for youth priorities in the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF). The KMGBF is enriched by transformative elements championed by youth including inclusive participation, human rights, education, and intergenerational equity.

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Since the adoption of the KMGBF in 2022, GYBN has continued its work to turn these into reality, including by participating in a number of countries’ processes to update their national biodiversity strategies and action plans (NBSAPs).

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A GYBN delegation is present at the 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP16) to bring substantive proposals to the negotiations that reflect the values and perspectives that young people see as important for transformative biodiversity policy and action.

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This document presents key youth recommendations for the agenda of COP16. It has been developed based on the principles and priorities continuously gathered by GYBN from our youth community. We call on Parties to support strong outcomes at COP16 that take into serious account the needs, priorities and perspectives of youth.